Mint 5 Swap Usage..what the..???

[Husse]

There is nothing strange about this - what's swapped out is (hopefully) something that's hardly used
This is controlled by "swappiness" which can have a value between 0 and 100 - 0 only swap if space in RAM runs out, 100 swap a lot
Ubuntu has 60 as default and so does Mint while Arch probably has a lower value
To find your swappiness

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cat /proc/sys/vm/swappiness

To change it permanently

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gksu gedit /etc/sysctl.conf

Search for vm.swappiness and change its value as desired, you could change to 10
After the next reboot the new swappiness is used and you should not see any use of the swap partition